JSE IBC Special Issue on Frontiers in Plant Systematics and Evolution

Special issue on simulated evolution and learning

The field of natural computation is one of the fastest growing areas in computer science and engineering. Although its origins can be traced back to the cybernetics movement of the 1950s, it has undergone a renaissance since the mid-1980s, primarily due to the fundamental work by pioneers (for example, John Holland, Ken De Jong, David Goldberg, John Koza, Lawrence Fogel) in the genetic and evol...

Special Issue: Frontiers in Antimicrobial Drug Discovery and Design.

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Plant development: a Special Issue.

I am very pleased to introduce this Special Issue focusing on plant developmental biology, published in honour of a founding father of the field, Ian Sussex. At its core, developmental biology is about understanding how a single cell, the zygote, becomes a complex multicellular organism with specialised cell types organised into coherent functional patterns. Evolution has provided two particula...

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Editorial_ Special issue “Planetary evolution and life”

Given the enormous number of stars in the universe and the number of confirmed and postulated planets in our galaxy, it is generally agreed that our home planet Earth is not likely to be unique (e.g., Sagan, 1980; Bignami et al., 2005; Hawking and Mlodinow, 2010). But is it? Although the number of known extrasolar planets grows almost by the day, observational bias caused by the technological c...